Vehicle-wheel.



No. 646,l09. Patented Mar. 27, I900. A. PALM.

VEHICLE WHEEL.

(Application filed Feb. 5, 1900.,

(No Model.)

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rT E STATES ANTON PALM, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

VEHICLE-WHEEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 646,109, dated March 27, 1900.

Application filed February 5, 1900. Serial No. 3,925. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTON PALM, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle-Wheels; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to that variety of elastic vehicle-wheels set forth in my Patent No. 580,216, issued April 6, 1897, and has for its object to simplify and cheapen such wheels, as well as to increase their resiliency, said invention consisting in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts, hereinafter particularly described with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

Figure l of the drawings represents a side View of a portion of my improved wheel, partly in section; Fig. 2, a horizontal section of the same on the plane indicated by line2 2 in the first figure; Fig. 3, a view illustrating the wheel-hub in front elevation, some of the spokes shown in this figure being broken and others in section; and Fig. 4, a perspective view of one of a pair of sections constituting part of said hub.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A indicates a straight metal sleeve that is exteriorly screw-threaded at both ends and constitutes the preferred form of aXle=boX for my improved elastic vehicle-wheel. Run on opposite ends of the aforesaid axle-box are nuts B C, and stay-pins D are arranged at intervals circumferentially of said axlebox, between the nuts. Each staypin D engages eyes formed by bending the inner ends of a pair of curved spring-metal spokes E, that cross each other and have their outer ends also bent to form eyes. The outer eyes of the spokes fit an inner groove in an annular rim F, and stay-pins G, having drive fit in side apertures of the rim, engage said eyes.

The curve of each spoke is opposite that of its mate on a stay-pin D, and in the wheel herein shown there are eight of the inner stay-pins, sixteen spokes, and sixteen of the other stay-pins G, the outer eye ends of each pair of spokes being near each other in order each sleeve are a series of segmental plates J,

arranged at regular intervals apart to constitute spacers between the pairs of spokes. The flange of each sleeve is notched at intervals to form seats for the segmental plates extend ing from the flange of the opposite sleeve, and 66 an annular shoulder of nut O opposes sleeve I to tighten the flanges of both sleeves against the opposing spokes, nut B and sleeve H being shown in wedge fit one within the other.

By bushing the sleeves and employing bolts 6 3 to connect their flanges an ordinary axlebox may be substituted for the one herein shown provided with the nuts aforesaid.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 70 Patent, is-

1. A vehicle-wheel comprising an axle-box, stay-pins at intervals circumferentially of the axle box, curved spring metal spokes that cross each other in pairs and have their inner 7 5' I ends bent to form eyes engaged by said pins,- an annular rim having an inner groove en= gaged by the outer ends of the spokes also bent to form eyes, other stay-pins connecting the rim and outer eye ends of said spokes, 8o

sleeves concentric with said axle-box and having spoke opposing flanges provided with right-angle extensions in the form of segmental plates constituting spacers between pairs of spokes, the plates of one flange being lapped on the opposite flange, and means for tightening said flanges against the aforesaid spokes.

2. A vehicle-wheel comprising an axle-box exteriorly screw-threaded at both ends, nuts 0 engaging said ends of the axle-box, stay-pins arranged circumferentially of said axle-box between the nuts, curved spring-metal spokes that cross each other in pairs and have their inner ends bent to form eyes engaged by said.

stay-pins, an annular rim having an inner groove engaged by the outer ends of the spokes also bent to form eyes, other stay-pins con necting the rim and outer eye ends of said spokes, and sleeves on the nuts having spoke- Ioo eddies opposing flanges provided with right-angle have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in extensions in the form of segmental plates the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisxo clonstituting spacers between pairs of spokes, cousin, in the presence of two witnesses. t e p ates of one flange being lapped on the 1 i I 1 5 opposite flange and said flanges tightened ANrl ON PALM against the aforesaid spokes by means of said Vvitnesses: I nuts. N. E. OLIPHANT,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I B. C. ROLOFFA 

